- Damange control was enacted this week after last week's PR disaster for the group behind China Hunan, China Song and Little Canton (among others). The group released an "open letter" from their staff on social media which was later deleted from Instagram (you can still find it on Facebook here), and director Ian Keegan went on RTE Radio to defend the housing situation and say the group would no longer be renting transitional housing for new recruits. He said that staff members from the...

- A PR nightmare today for the owners of China Hunan, Hakkahan and Little Canton, who've been discovered housing 34 staff members in a four bedroom house in Killiney, suffering from damp and mould. The owners are blaming "a perfect storm" and an inability to find other accommodation, but this one is going to be hard to recover from - The opening of new café Supp in Finglas has been delayed due to a €2000 chair mistake among others - Do you stalk fishmonger Sebastian Skillings' feed like...

- Lulu's, a new Italian wine bar from the former restaurant director of Allta has opened on Aungier Street. There's wine, "foldies" and "sexy tunes" apparently -Those crazy cats over at the unfortunately named "Foxy Lounge" have rebranded as "Foxy Bistro" under apparent "new ownership", but would a new owner keep that terrible name? Our money's on the Insta-drama loving couple in question splitting and one of them taking it forward - we'll have our eyes peeled for more - After the Entrecote...